Grid planners must abandon narrow categorizations of transmission projects to allow broader cost allocation, speakers at WIRES meeting said.

Western states must work together to build transmission avoid blackouts, Idaho Power CEO Lisa Grow and CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer agreed.

The Colorado PUC discussed the potential benefits of interstate transmission planning, while the Senate is reviewing a bill requiring RTO membership.

A lack of interregional transmission projects is stymying the growth of renewable resources in SPP, MISO & PJM, according to a new report released by ACORE.

SPP’s state regulators agreed on revisions to a package of recommendations, including one that prioritizes resolving rate pancaking.

SPP regulators agreed to keep up their collaboration with MISO regulators, saying the effort is pressuring the RTOs to resolve their seams issues.

MISO said it will approach SPP about improving the processes underpinning affected system studies in response to stakeholders’ persistent calls for change.

Panelists at gridCONNEXT's annual conference expressed hope that the incoming Biden administration will be able to advance renewables.

DOE’s latest assessment of transmission congestion has concluded there is no need to designate national-interest transmission corridors.

SPP staff have been meeting with MISO staff as they scope the RTOs' joint transmission study of potential projects along their seam.